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The latest in architectural visualization and virtual reality application development.
Wikitecture 3.0 Experiment: 1st Kick-Off Meeting
After tallying the results, the consensus for the best time to meet is: Tuesday, September 25th @ 9:00am PST/SLT. Here is the slurl link to the ‘Studio Wikitecture’ parcel in Second Life. Although kick-off is not until Oct. 15th, we wanted to hold an early meeting to...
Second Life Architecture on CBS News
If Terry Beaubois (Tab Scott in SL) keeps this up, I'm going to have to dedicate a regular column just for covering his work! Check out 'Learning Architecture in a Virtual World.' Well done!
Welcome to Wikitecture 3.0! By the Community, for the Community
Read the full release here. Would you like to participate in the AMD Open Architecture Challenge on a global team of qualified and talented architects, designers and engineers? Studio Wikitecture invites you to just that. In keeping with the spirit of the Open...
AutoCAD Import Demonstration: Transcript Posted
Let there be no doubt, the architecture and design community is pining for a fluid and automatic import process!!! I knew a meeting like this would bring lots of new faces. Even the slightest tremor of an import tool shakes out bunches of would-be SL resident...
The Living Sim: Helfe Ihnen, Yona Friedman and Spatial City
There are several ways I can tell that Helfe Ihnen's DEsign Island has become my favorite sim in all of Second Life. First, I've been collecting batches (literally hundreds) of screenshots over the course of several weeks now, with the ongoing intention of doing a...
Pasting Scripts into WordPress Doesn’t Work
If anyone had trouble copying the Reflexive Architecture scripts out of the wordpress post, please accept my apologies, and try these instead: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddqzdng9_32dwrgxj Apparently Wordpress has a different quotation system, or makes things bold -...
AutoCAD Import Tool Demonstration: Architecture Meeting Thursday, Sept. 13th, 11AM
This week's Architecture Group meeting will be a demonstration of the new AutoCAD import tool (Henshin III), created by AI Studio. They will rez a full building, designed and modeled in AutoCAD, completely textured. They will also demonstrate the Layer functions and...
Importing Maya into Second Life: More Fun with Sculpted Prims
[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en5P2S6pnGs] Interesting Metaversed post (link), brought to my attention by Tara5 Oh of Ugotrade. "The software itself works as a plugin, augmenting Maya to enable the in-world rezzing function as well as all of the extras...
AutoCAD to Second Life: New Version Video
[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7HxeKPE_GA] My friend Nicco Kuhn brought this to my attention. A new demo video of the next generation Henshin III AutoCAD import to Second Life tool. Please post comments with your experiences using this tool if you've had...
Second Life @ the Design Museum for RIBA Architecture Week 2007, by Fraser Fonda / Kate Allen
The following essay was submitted by Fraser Fonda / Kate Allen. Slideshow of all Figures (by Fraser) posted HERE. Introduction The idea to hold meetings in Second Life developed in discussion with research group Performance in Transit, including mathematician Marcus...
Mar Vista Residence, by Gregory Ain – Built by SL Resident Octal Khan
Great post over at New World Notes covering Octal Khan's reconstruction of the Mar Vista Home by Architect Gregory Ain. Read the post HERE. [youtube = http://youtube.com/watch?v=qUzVKCsTPb8]
Transcript: Architectural Tutorials Discussion with Christopher Prudhomme
Another fantastic discussion. Lots of great ideas can be found in today's meeting transcript posted HERE. Christopher will be posting his document on the SLFoundations Wiki for further revision and consumption. Thanks Christopher!!!
Are We Flapping or Flying?
I just read through a very interesting series of posts over on Wayne Hodgins 'Off Course-On Target' about flapping versus flying as it relates to Second Life and virtual world development. Here, and here. I think he makes some very solid observations, and I agree with...
Architecture Group Meeting: Architectural Building Tutorials, Sept. 6th, 2:00 PM SL-time
6 September 2007, 2PM SL-time (PDT) Christopher Prudhomme, Educational Technology Masters Student at the UT Telecampus and Technology consultant for The Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, will be describing his ideas for a new Architectural Building...
A Wiki, a Forum and Tons of New Features Serving the Architecture and Design Community of Second Life!
The Second Life Architecture and Design community now has its own forum, as well as a place you can upload and share your favorite screenshots and machinima! Please visit http://slarchitecture.ning.com and join the network (it's free and very easy). The benefits of...
Open Source Scripts: Reflexive Virtual Architecture
I've decided to Open Source several of the scripts behind the Reflexive Architecture installations, with Fumon Kubo's permission under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Since this work is inspired by so many others, it only makes sense to make...
